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100% fact. It's actually crazy that people are trying to pretend that "hispanic" always existed. LOL

Americans literally never heard of a "hispanic" minority group before then. In places where people of Spanish origin were common, like Texas, no one had ever heard of a "hispanic". There was no concept of that at all.

My own family never heard of a "hipanic" until the late 1980s. Plenty of people are still living to talk about this. Idiots are claiming that it always existed lol.

There was some historical use of the word "hispanic" but it was rare and didn't mean the same thing. that your family lived in isolation and disconnected from the culture does not mean that the culture didnt exist. There was no such thing as a "hispanic" minority group. No concept of that.

No, a Mexican American woman named Grace Flores Hugues chose the term. She brags about it today.

America is not the world, the term was used in latam/spain for centuries and meant exactly that means today.

America is not the world, the term was used in latam/spain for centuries and meant exactly that means today.

No it did not!

The U.S term "Hispanic" as it was coined in the 70s, meant that people of Spanish origin are a non-white minority group!

That is not how Spanish people or Latin Americans EVER used the term historically. Spanish people and Latin Americans see themselves as white! And that is what they were historically considered to be in the United States before the "hispanic" category was introduced in the 80s.

The U.S term "Hispanic" as it was coined in the 70s, meant that people of Spanish origin are a non-white minority group!

That is not how Spanish people or Latin Americans EVER used the term historically. Spanish people and Latin Americans see themselves as white! And that is what they were historically considered to be in the United States before the "hispanic" category was introduced in the 80s.

"hispanic" was a completely new concept.

you cant be more wrong, and we already talked about this and you dint bring any evidence to support your claim.
Dude we even have a hispanic-american anthem, written in 1930s about the the unity of the Hispanics ! jajajaja

in Latin america we prefer to sign the pan american anthem in school.
was first composed in 1902 in Argentina, has been used for over 100 years.
but dont let facts get on your way....we Hispanics have never considered ourselves to have anything in common jajajajajajaja

Forty years ago, that term — “Hispanic” — was proposed to group people of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Latin American ancestry in government statistics. No one had even heard of “Latino” back then.

And we got idiots talking about "It's always existed for 500 years!", LOL. Nope, no one ever heard of that even 40 years ago. It wasn't an ethnic concept that existed.

It must be tough to find out that your whole identity was politically fabricated in the 1970s by bureaucrats, but it was. LOL.

Pope Francis’s parents migrated from Italy, and Don Francisco’s came from Germany.

In this case, I would say neither of them are "Hispanic."

The history of the word doesn't much matter. What matters is the need for a term to describe people who are descended from Spanish conquistadors/colonialists, and the word "Hispanic" is as good as any for that.

They don't identify with "hispanic" but they definitely identify with "latino"

In this case, I would say neither of them are "Hispanic."

The history of the word doesn't much matter. What matters is the need for a term to describe people who are descended from Spanish conquistadors/colonialists, and the word "Hispanic" is as good as any for that.

True, The term Latino is wider and preferred in latam than Hispanic, as Hispanic is not pan-american as it would exclude Brazil.

Latino is a very old term too, coined by Napoleon during the post revolutionary era.

And we got idiots talking about "It's always existed for 500 years!", LOL. Nope, no one ever heard of that even 40 years ago. It wasn't an ethnic concept that existed.

It must be tough to find out that your whole identity was politically fabricated in the 1970s by bureaucrats, but it was. LOL.

Soooo this building, built in 1904 is just a product of our collective imagination right?

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